Double R, I wasn't downing the foodservice industry, but just making a statement that when drivers with spotty pasts come on here looking for help the "same ole same ole" is always thrown out there.
I agree that this industry is back breaking hard work and isn't for everyone, I've been there, done that and would still be there if the company hadn't closed and let us go.
I will disagree with you to a point on the "strick hiring practices" though. When these companies need drivers and go outside the company and use "staffing agencies" as they often do here in the Twin Cities, it becomes a different story.
Jackrabbit and JD, I agree that if the individual has no missing parts, they will get hired and trained, and if a person needs a job and is willing to do the work no matter how difficult or put family needs over personal happiness they can do this work.
From my personal experience, I worked along side drivers who had just received their CDL (no experience) OTR or otherwise. Drivers with experience only in driving passenger coach or school busses. Drivers who in my opinion that had 3 and 4 accidents within a 2 year period shouldn't have been there, and had additional accidents while on the job with me, including rolling a trailer and still being retained. Now I could go on with this, but I'm just pointing out my observations.
I will say that Double R could be 100% correct that these companies won't hire with DWI / DUI or felonies, but I can't be sure about the folks I worked with, they could have possibly gotten hired also. These companies using staffing agencies need bodies to fill the seats and hump the products to keep the customer base, and again from my observations they will do what they have to in order to keep those groceries moving down the ramps into the customers coolers, freezers and dry storerooms.
One last thing. Jackrabbit, those with injuries don't always lose out either unless its so severe they can't work any longer. They get rehab, phy. therapy, desk jobs, and then work as on call driver reliefs for those running out of hours, but physical labor to assist other drivers.
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